Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop

Re:Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop by danielweber on Monday September 03, 2012 @08:39PM (#4472487)

I've been using it for a few months and becoming more and more upset with it. I have very high inertia and so I've stuck with it to give it a chance, but the deal-breaker is probably going to be that sliding my mouse to a new window ought to result in me immediately being able to type in the new window.

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Re:Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop by jlgreco on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:27PM (#4472634)

That's not the only mouse-related thing it does poorly. The workstation I use at work came with Unity as the default. I decided to give myself a week to get used to it but gave up after only 3 days. Using Synergy with Unity is a complete pain in the ass with that menu thing that is on the left side of the screen. It was constantly activating when I moved my mouse to the other computer or not activating at all when I wanted it to.

After 3 days I just installed Awesome and went from there. Unity provides me absolutely nothing that I want that Awesome doesn't. The only thing it does for me is get in the way.

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Re:Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop by Evbn on Monday September 03, 2012 @10:51PM (#4472842)

I can't get my Gnome2 with Compiz to do focus follows mouse either. How?

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Re:Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop by jeltz on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @03:46AM (#4473582)

I do not remember how but I am almost 100% sure I at one point ran Gnome2+Compiz with focus follows mouse. Maybe you need to install the advanced configuration manager for Compiz.

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Re:Linus Torvalds responds to what killed the Linux desktop by Zardoz84 on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @06:14AM (#4473887)

Try KDE, it's pretty easy to enable focus follows mouse.

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